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Hefty auto insurance rates in Dearborn a burden on residents
August 21st, 20150 AAA Headquarters in Dearborn.DEARBORN — High auto insurance prices in Dearborn are becoming an economic burden on residents and pushing some motorists to drive illegally without coverage. The loss ratio for insurance companies hikes the rates. All drivers have to suffer because of the high costs of past claims.Ali Khalifeh, an agent...
Candidate’s social media posts raise concern about anti-Muslim bigotry
August 21st, 20150 DEARBORN — Concerns are being raised about the social media posts of a candidate in the race for Michigan’s 15th House District. Dorn Zurawski, a lifelong Dearborn resident, is accused of making derogatory and racist remarks about Arabs and Muslims on social media. One Facebook post features a woman wearing the Niqab who...Oklahoma man at ‘Muslim Free’ gun store accidentally shoots himself
OKLAHOMA CITY — A man helping out at a self-proclaimed "Muslim Free" gun store in the rural town of Oktaha, Oklahoma, accidentally shot himself in the arm after dropping his gun, authorities said on Wednesday. The man involved in the Tuesday incident has not been identified and his injuries are not life-threatening, Muskogee County...
Young Dearborn man commits suicide
August 20th, 20150 Khodor Abbas. Photo: FacebookDEARBORN— Khodor Abbas, the Dearborn 20-year-old man who died on Tuesday night, committed suicide, according to a police source. A community member familiar with the situation also confirmed that the young man killed himself. Abbas' family had told The Arab American News that he died in a car accident...Avoid tickets by keeping cars off street on Public Service Days
DEARBORN—In order for Dearborn to keep streets clean and maintain high neighborhood standards, the city has begun a new season of Public Service Days.Parking rules will be enforced. Residents are required to keep parked vehicles off neighborhood streets from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on their trash days, which are also Public Service...We should be better neighbors
Children playing at night in a Dearborn street.Dearborn has a rich, diverse culture— a hybrid of the Middle East and the Midwest that can manifest itself in tasty food, welcoming faces and exuberant atmospheres. But not all is great. Our enthusiasm and liveliness are turning into chaos. Our tendency to be loud and stay up late...
Detroit Jewish community shocked by child porn case
August 20th, 20150 WEST BLOOMFIELD—On Monday, a federal magistrate denied bond for Matthew Kuppe, the 21-year-old man who worked as a camp counselor at the Detroit Jewish Community Center (JCC). Kuppe is accused of taking photos of naked young boys in a locker room while working as a counselor. He was...
Escaped tiger recaptured in old Detroit factory
August 20th, 20150 DETROIT — Police in Detroit confirmed a tiger was on the loose in a disused plant on the east side of the city and it has now been recaptured. Detroit police said the tiger escaped from a British film crew Monday while they were shooting footage inside the old Packard Plant and the crew was unable to recapture the big...Blast near Cairo state security building wounds six
CAIRO — At least six people were wounded early on Thursday in a car bombing near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb, security sources said.The sources, who inspected the site of the blast in Shubra al-Khaima, said there was a burned-out vehicle and crater.Comments on Twitter indicated the blast was heard...
No charges for ICE agent who fatally shot 20-year-old
August 19th, 20150 DETROIT—On Wednesday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced that Mitchell Quinn, the ICE agent who fatally shot 20-year-old Terrence Kellom will not face charges in the Detroit resident’s death.Worthy said that forensic evidence and the testimony of some people at the scene showed the killing of...
Former aide discusses details of Lansing sex scandal
August 19th, 20150 LANSING—Joshua Cline, a former staffer for state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat opened up about the legislators’ affair this week at a press conference. The scandal has rocked Lansing and the state legislature. Courser and Gamrat are both married with children. The two Tea Party...
Zimmerman to sell Confederate flag painting to help ‘Muslim-free’ gunshop
August 18th, 20150 George ZimmermanGeorge Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, is raffling off a painting he made of a Confederate flag to raise money for a Florida gunshop owner who declared his store a Muslim-free zone.Zimmerman, who gained notoriety during his trial for killing...Undercover Detroit police car stolen
A 2015 Ford Fusion DETROIT — When your car gets stolen, you call the police. But when a police car gets stolen, who do they call? An undercover officer was confronted with that question when his unmarked car was stolen from Detroit's northwest side last night. The police are not announcing the exact location where the car was...Lebanon arrests fugitive cleric Ahmed al-Assir
AssirBEIRUT - Lebanese authorities say they have arrested a fugitive extremist cleric who was wanted on suspicion of being involved in a deadly shootout with government troops last year.Two senior security officials say Ahmed al-Assir was detained on Saturday at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport as he was trying to flee the...Study: Walking while texting slows you down
Texting while driving is clearly a bad idea, but it may be dangerously distracting while walking, too, a new study suggests. Researchers asked 30 people to navigate an obstacle course three times and found they were significantly slower while texting and walking than when completing the route without any distractions. When the......
Emirates Airlines to launch longest non-stop flight
DUBAI – Dubai's Emirates Airline announced Thursday it will launch the world's "longest non-stop flight" in February the fight will travel from the bustling Gulf emirate to Panama City, lasting more than 17 hours. The carrier will fly daily to Panama's capital in a passenger flight operated by a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft, which can...Lebanon’s FPM rallies for greater representation
BEIRUT – Thousands of supporters of Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement have descended in convoys on the capital's downtown district to protest against what they consider to be the marginalization of Christian rights in the country, as well as the extension of the terms of top army commanders. Early on Wednesday evening, cars decked......
ISIS car bombs kill 135 Iraqis
BAGHDAD – A truck bombing claimed by ISIS killed at least 67 people in a Shi'a-majority area of Baghdad Thursday, in one of the deadliest single attacks in the city in months. The truck hit the Jameela market in the Iraqi capital’s crowded Sadr City neighborhood shortly after dawn, according to two local police officers. They said...Dengue rife, malaria spreading in the streets of Yemen
SANAA – Trash piling up on the streets of Yemeni towns is helping the spread of dengue fever and malaria, a charity employing local people to clear up the filth said on Wednesday, as fighting, baking heat and a lack of food and water add to their hardships. Garbage lying in the streets has contaminated soil and water and attracted...Music boosts recovery from surgery, reduces pain
Listening to music before, during and after surgery reduces patients' pain, eases anxiety and lessens the need for painkillers, British scientists said on Thursday. After reviewing evidence from around 7,000 patients, the scientists said people going for surgery should be allowed to choose the music they'd like to hear to maximize the...Riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri to remain in state of emergency
Young men demonstraiting in Ferguson on Aug. 12.ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, remained under a state of emergency through Wednesday night.The state of emergency, which gives county police oversight of......
Rise and fall of Arab revolutionary discourse
A protest at Tahrir Square during the Jan. 25 Egyptian Revolution in 2011.Strange how intellectual discussion concerning the so-called “Arab Spring” has almost entirely shifted in recent years - from one concerning freedom, justice, democracy and rights in general, into a political wrangle between various antagonist camps. The...
Community leaders discuss Iran deal with Rep. Dingell
August 13th, 20150 — On Saturday, Aug. 8, community leaders and activists met at La Pita in Dearborn to discuss the Iranian nuclear deal with Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Dearborn). Congress is expected vote on the measure in the coming weeks. Community members encouraged Dingell to vote in favor of the deal. In the historic deal, the......
Detroit area Iraqis protest poor services in homeland
August 13th, 20150 DETROIT — Local Iraqis are expressing solidarity with demonstrators in their homeland. The wave of protests rocking Iraq over poor services and government corruption have prompted them to call for reforms. Last weekend, a group of Iraqi Americans protested for reforms in Iraq outside the old Dearborn City Hall on Michigan...
Arab Americans struggle to pass Arabic to future generations
August 13th, 20150 DEARBORN — Fewer young Arab Americans read and write Arabic as they seek to assimilate. Hala Hazimeh, principal at the Muslim American Youth Academy (MAYA), a pre-school to eighth grade Arabic and Islamic school, said Dearborn is unlike any other Arab American community, because its members tend to stick closer together . While......
